Krakow, Poland
Rynek Underground
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
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Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Prague, Czechia
This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.
Prague, Czechia
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
Prague, Czechia
Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Manteo, North Carolina
Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.
Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Rome, Italy
In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.
Rome, Italy
The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.
Rome, Italy
This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.
Rome, Italy
A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.
Rome, Italy
One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Rome, Italy
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Rome, Italy
One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.
Rome, Italy
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
Rome, Italy
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.